compile LESS with custom parameters using Assetic - less

I want to compile a LESS file with parameters fetched from the database.
So something like this:
$color = "#433332";
And then in .less
#baseColor: $color;
Of course this is just pseudocode, so give you an idea what I want to do.
I am using Assetic, Symfony 2.1.8-DEV and the leafo/lessphp bundle.
I have no idea how I could achieve this. Is it even possible?

You could possibly define a parameter at runtime based on a db value and pass it into your assetic configuration and through to LESS as a global var (or similar), but configuration is parsed pretty early on and that would probably be a bit mental. I certainly wouldn't rule it out as possible though, I'm pretty sure I've seen a hack to achieve this using the regular SASS compiler.
The following PR on GitHub may be of relevance:
https://github.com/kriswallsmith/assetic/pull/177

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Creating Cytoscape.js extensions

Max, I want to update my extension to the new format, but I am running into issues with placement of custom code. It seems that the extension framework has been updated a lot since I added an extension 4 years ago. Is there a way to get better documentation on getting started with adding a extension? I am happy to help write up the documentation if you can help answer some questions that I think would help get people started. Let me know.
The only thing that really changed is that the scaffolder creates a webpack project for you. The extension registering procedure is the same: http://js.cytoscape.org/#extensions/api
For example, cytoscape( 'collection', 'fooBar', function(){ return 'baz'; } ) registers eles.fooBar().
I guess the main thing is that there are a lot more files than what the previous scaffolder generated, so it might be harder to find things. The layout output has lots of files, because it creates a skeleton impl for each of the continuous case and the discrete case.
The scaffolder isn't strictly necessary. You could use another build system (or none at all) as long as you call cytoscape(). For example, if you only care about publishing to npm for people who use webpack/browserify/rollup, then you could just use cjs require('cytoscape') to pull in the peer dependency. Exporting a register function is nice if you want to allow the client to decide the order of extension registrations with cytoscape.use(extension) (or extension(cytoscape)).
You're right that there should be some more docs on the output of the scaffolder. Maybe a summary of the files would suffice. We could add a tutorial in the blog later if need be. Both the docs and the blog just use markdown, so the content could go in either place.

Can I include scripts and styles into Smidge bundler by wild card?

And if so, how? :) I tried doing simply for example
"~/scripts/src/*.js"
but no luck. It would save me quite a lot of work if I could do that, or even
"~/scripts/src/**/*.js"
You can but it doesn't currently support the correct/nice globbing patterns that you describe. For example, you can include a folder with a filter with this syntax: #{ Smidge.RequiresJs("~/Js/Stuff*js"); } ... so include the Stuff folder for *.js files (see https://github.com/Shazwazza/Smidge/wiki/declarations#view-based-declarations)
This is the task that needs to be completed to make this work nicely https://github.com/Shazwazza/Smidge/issues/47 Hopefully i can find some time to get that done soon.

Dojo 1.8 Build Layer Modules not available during Parse

In our project we use parse on declarative syntax to instantiate our modules. We have a build process that builds our dojo, generic and functional layers for us. In one of our functions, the parser is complaining that some of the modules aren't defined (What's also odd is that the modules aren't being auto required either). I've confirmed that the layer is included in the page and that the module(s) are included in the layer. I can "require" the modules after the parse and they return the proper constructors. No errors are being reported (the attempt to retrieve the module is in a try/catch).
I feel like something silly is happening, but I can't find it. Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot would be helpful.
I've tried both parseOnLoad (our default) and calling parse seperately, even after a 10 second timeout.
Ugh, I knew it was something silly. We had lang="en" instead of lang="en-US".

Need help in configuring correct paths for DOH

I'm trying to get DOH testing working for my company's upcoming platform, but I can't figure out the right combination of paths. Our file structure looks like this:
/dojo15
/release
/dojo
/dojo
dojo.js
dojoExt.js
/dojo
dojo.js
/util
/doh
/js
mainLib.js
/tests
base.js
This was created by our contractors, so unfortunately there are some things I have to figure out as I'm going along.
The "release" directory is what is used on our pages.
The "util" directory doesn't exist in our release directory. (I'd like to avoid having to make a copy of it there.)
I'm not entirely sure what they did with dojoExt.js there, but it seems to be required. I was able to make a simple "hello world" sort of test, but once I did dojo.require(js.mainLib), I got an error that dojo.behavior.add is not a method. So it seems to be they made a stripped-down dojo.js and put other required code in dojoExt.js.
My guess is that DOH is using the dojo in dojo15/dojo, but I need to include dojo15/release/dojo/dojo/dojoExt.js. I've tried every combination of dojoUrl, testModule, registerModulePath I can think of...also saw "boot" and "path" from other SE questions, even though I can't see in runner.html where they would even be used, but I tried throwing them in to see if they'd magically help anyway.
At the moment I don't really have the option to move code around, so I'm hoping to work this out with files where they currently are.
Did you try the bits I suggested over at a related question? We use the bits I detailed there to pull together a completely custom layout of dojo + util. Take a look at both boot and dojoUrl. I think it's runner.js that does most of the cunning stuff, rather than runner.html.
Is the problem that you can't arrange for dojoExt.js to get loaded? How does your other code arrange for it to get loaded? Is tests/base.js your test module?

Build if then statements at run time?

My product owner has asked me to make some comparision logic configurable so the process engineers can change things without making code changes. Currently the code is a SELECT CASE statement with various IF THEN statements that are fairly standard. The problem I can't seem to find a way around is that he wants through configuration to AND/OR a variable number of comparisons in the IF THEN statements. His idea is the that the configuration would work like a limited query builder for the process engineers. The only solution I've come up with is to build a function in a string and use the VBCodeProvider to compile it at runtime. Is there a better way to approach this?
One way to do it is just store the booleans in your configuration file, load them up at run time, and use them in your code like any other boolean.
A better way would be to have the configuration as close to his problem domain as possible, then code up the proper booleans from those to use in your code.
You could use expressions to accomplish this. With this you would be able to build up an IfExpression and build up its conditions. You would be able to compile this and run it all at runtime.